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Greg Norman Lists For $65 Million

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Christina S.N. Lewis

Updated Nov. 23, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Golfer Greg Norman is challenging Tiger Woods -- in the run for real-estate records.

Mr. Norman listed his eight-acre oceanfront estate on Florida's Jupiter Island this week for $65 million. If the 52-year-old PGA Tour player gets anywhere near his asking price, he'll break the local record set last year by Mr. Woods, who paid a total of $44.5 million for 12 acres nearby, agents say. Jupiter Island, about 25 miles north of Palm Beach, has historically drawn prestigious families like the Fords and du Ponts.

Mr. Norman's property includes a 1902 four-bedroom main house of roughly 8,100 square feet and a two-bedroom beachside guest house. There's also a three-bedroom coach house, a carriage house with a gym, a grilling house, a tennis court, garaging for 17 cars, a 50-foot pool and a 140-foot-long dock.

The Australian-born golfer -- whose name is on everything from golf courses to beef and wine -- paid $4.9 million for the property in 1991, records show, and did extensive work on it. At the time, he had won 10 PGA Tour events and would go on to win 10 more. Wendy Overton and Randy Ely, of Corcoran Group, have the listing.

House in Vick Case on Market Again

The developer who bought the house at the center of Michael Vick's dog-fighting-ring case has put it on sale a week after he bought it, at a 66% markup.

The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback quietly sold the house, in the rural Virginia county of Surry, last week for $450,000. The buyer, developer Wilbur Ray Todd Jr., of Todd Builders, paid about 60% of the home's assessed value of $747,000. He plans to make some improvements and this week listed the home for that price, according to the listing agent, Kyle Hause, of Long & Foster.

The 27-year-old Mr. Vick, who grew up in the area, commissioned the 4,600-square-foot house, Mr. Hause says. According to court records, Mr. Vick began running a dog-fighting ring there in 2001 (he turned pro the same year). The 15-acre parcel includes the two-story, five-bedroom house, a professional basketball court and a dog kennel with more than 30 pens at the rear of the property, Mr. Hause says. In August, Mr. Vick pleaded guilty to federal charges and is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 10; he also faces state charges. Mr. Vick began his jail sentence early, on Monday.

Before a sale, the new owner is fixing damage from a burglary and removing traces of police investigations, Mr. Hause says. If a suitable offer doesn't come in, he plans to hold an auction Dec. 15 at the house.

Earlier this fall, Mr. Vick put an Atlanta-area house on the market for $4.5 million. He couldn't be reached for comment.

John Wayne's Widow Cuts Asking Price

Pilar Wayne, the widow of John Wayne, is trying to sell her Fort Worth, Texas, home for just $100,000 more than what it cost back in 1998.

The Peruvian-born actress, who was married to the Duke for 25 years until his death in 1979, has cut her asking price to $2.3 million, from $2.6 million when she listed it this summer.

The home is in a roughly 700-acre gated community, Mira Vista, in the southwestern part of the city. Ms. Wayne's current husband, Jesse Upchurch, chairman of travel-agency network Virtuoso, paid about $2.2 million for the newly built house on a half-acre in 1998, records show.

The 9,000-square-foot house has six bedrooms, one of which Ms. Wayne uses as an art studio (she sells her oil paintings). There's also a pool, a hot tub, an elevator and five fireplaces and it's adjacent to a Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course.

The couple live full-time in Irvine, Calif. -- not too far from Newport Beach, where the actor and Ms. Wayne mainly lived when not aboard his yacht, the Wild Goose. DeeAnn Moore, of Mira Vista Realtors, has the listing.